Posted on 11/13/2011 2:25:54 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
That's a pretty rough country when it comes to politics. Folks wandering the streets with RPGs strapped to their backs. Assassination is an ever present danger for every rich guy or politician.
Yemen is NOT a model democracy and never will be.
CAin has no depth. He is clearly winging it, and probably suprised more than anyone that he’s come this far.
Many of here on FR like the man, but please let’s get real. He’s be good in any admin, maybe the VP. But he is not the best out there.
Romney did quite well again. He has considerable energy, whereas Newt comes across at times as a good laxative. I mean he more the statesman than an energetic leader.
Right now a great ticket would be Romney/Gingrich IMHO
I will for sure be getting the onslaught from the Romney haters in T minus ten minutes....
Mine is that Perry has been all along Romney's stalking horse ~ and he still is.
His job is to help make Mitt look Presidential, and smart. Of course Rick has succeeded in making all the others look really smart but that's just Rick eh!
Yep! I saw that wink, too!
Cain doesn’t have foreign policy experience. Neither did Barack Obama.
He can hardly mess things up worse.
As for Romney, your pimping him won’t win you any friends on this forum.
Seeing the self-serving Perry depicted as a “Good Ole Boy” is getting tiresome.
Perry has taken the truism “self-serving pol” to a new level of crassness. Perry has been labeled “the human price tag” for using Texas govt to enrich humself-—one of his campaign donors even got his own regulatory agency——for a price.
If the Perry-pimponistas can’t stand the heat-—they should get out of the kitchen.
You and I have been on this forum a long time. I think without checking, this would be our forth election together.
I agree with what you say. My only thought is what I posted a few moments ago. Romney has energy. He’s a young man. What he says is spot on regarding dismantling the huge bureaucracy of cushy gov’t jobs.
I think he will be a good president, maybe a great one.
Newt in my mind, can hold his own with anyone.
Right now, my ticket is Romney/Gingrich
That dog won't hunt. Never did.
I agree.
There’s not much to look at in this field. None of them are heavyweights.
Slick Willard may not wow the conservatives but he can wait until the open primaries to win. McInsane followed the same strategy in 2008 and wrapped up the nomination.
I do believe Perry and all the other candidates have their own websites that they own and where they control the content. People can go there to see what any particular candidate says he believes in.
Not from me—excellent analysis, even though I do not like Romney at all (I live in Boston).
If Romney had his own flair but Gingrich’s intellect and Cain’s conservatism, we’d have something. But we don’t have that.
I believe Romney will be the nominee, and I will vote for him. Whatever the flamers say, he isn’t stupid. It’s just that he has a spine of Jell-O. Here in Massachusetts, he was proudly for gun control...and then he wasn’t. He was proudly pro-abortion...and then he wasn’t. Gay marriage?
I don’t think he’s dumb, I don’t think he’s evil, but I don’t think he is anything but yet another country clubber who believes in ‘managing’ the country. I do think he might be better on the economy, which we need, but that’s a faint hope, and on other things that are important to me, he isn’t the dynamic, powerful force we need to turn things back after Obama.
I usually don’t even care about things like that last point, but there are times when a country doesn’t need just a president, but someone with a strong, different vision and the ability to articulate it and carry it out. Romney’s not that by a mile. But then, none of these people running, and none of those who might have run, is that person.
We don’t need messiahs or celebrities in the White House, but we don’t need the vacuum with a haircut that is Romney. And this is who I’ll end up having to vote for.
Ugh.
What's the matter Larry, can't hold your own after you throw out insults? Always needing to pull in your FR anti-Perry hit-squad to pile on the bs? You all have become predictable. Yawn.
“Perry threads”?
So the OP is simply propaganda?
Interesting.
Not sure I understand your post. If you look back, you’ll see I’m no Perry supporter. Just ask the #1 Perry supporter on the site, she’ll tell you.
Most people on here will do their darnedest to keep him from being nominated and if he wins it anyway, they will sit out the election. They detest him that much not to do anything to help him defeat Obama. 75% of Republicans don’t want the man. But Slick Willard insists on imposing himself on the party because its “his turn” now.
Cincinatus’ Wife,
Hey look, I’m now considered a Perry pimp!
I guess all your postings have worked.
Though I wish someone told ME, then I wouldn’t have posted all of my reservations about him... ;)
Well it seemed like a gratuitous slam against Cain.
Unless we were watching different debates.
Cain did well.
Too many Republicans have no idea what that means ~ in fact, the problem is currently at serious disease stage in the leadership ranks.
We won an historic election last year that turned back decades of Democrat corruption at the state level, and we retook the House!
Irrespective of whether you think he did a good job at it or not, he was there when we won but the top dogs decided they no longer liked Mike Steele and they instead wanted Preibus.
As I predicted Preibus would be the captive of the old money classes and would be ineffective. You'll notice that this latest election this year was not the sweeping victory we had last year. Not that we ran out of targets, but somebody at the top ran out of gas. They just stood there and let the Democrats dominate the discussion.
That's not how a winner does things ~
Cain is used to winning. Gingrich certainly relished the idea and took back the House after half a century of Democrat abuse of power.
But the others? Are they winners, or cavers?
Can we get a new RNC Chairman who cares about winning?
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